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there is hair of all different colours : And it is only in fome remote 

 parts in the Highlands of Scotland that the antient red Caledonian 

 hair is preferved. 



The diftinaions I have hitherto mentioned are pretty well 

 known ; but there are other differences in the human form, that are 

 not fo well known, and by many are believed not to exift. 



And firft, there are the men with tails. There are many, t know, 

 who will not believe that fuch men exift, for the fame reafon that 

 they will not believe that the Oran Outan is a Man ; becaufe they 

 think the addition of a tail to the human form would be a difgraceto 

 human nature. But, in the Origin and Progrefs of Language *,Ihave 

 given fuch authorities for the fad:, that we cannot difbelieve it, or even 

 doubt of it, without rejecting all human teftimony, and refolving to 

 believe nothing but what we have feen. I will only add here one 

 teftimony from an antient author to the authorities there quoted ; 

 not that I think any further evidence in the cafe is neceffary, 

 but becaufe it is a further confirmation of what I have fo much 

 inhfted upon in this work — the wonderful agreement betwixt an- 

 tient hiftory and modern travellers. The teftimony I mean is that 

 of Paufanias t» who gives an account of fatyrs, or men with tails, 

 w^hich he had from one Euphemus, wh^ was an eye-witnefs of what 

 he related. This man, upon a voyage to Italy, was driven by a 

 ftorm into the Atlantic Ocean, and was there forced afhore upon 

 one of feveral iflan Js, known to the failorsby the name of the IJlands 

 of SatyrSy being inhabited by men with tails, fome of whom want- 

 ed to come aboard the fliip, but the failors would not allow them ; 

 and, as they knew it was fome women they had in the fhip whom 

 they wanted, in order to fatisfy them, they gave them a Barbarian 



^ woman 



* Vol. T. Book II. Chap. 3. page 257. Second Edition. 

 t Lib. I. page 54. 



